educate
What is knowledge without skills? What are skills without a right behaviours and attitude? What is education without developing competencies?
Competence development is crucial in education because it ensures that students acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in a rapidly changing world. By focusing on competencies, educators can provide personalized learning experiences that cater to each student’s unique needs and abilities, fostering deeper understanding and long-term retention.
This approach not only prepares students for future challenges but also empowers them to take ownership of their learning journey. This is why we promote competence development and offer solutions that optimize and facilitate this process, making it easier and more efficient for educators. Below are our tools and features designed to support you in this important work.
apps & concepts
learning paths & Dakora+
In every classroom, there are students who excel and students who fall behind. The former need more challenges, more tasks, and increased difficulty levels to progress. The latter need more structure, more instruction, and more assistance to keep up. Additionally, there is a large group of students who fall "in between," requiring a balance of both approaches.
Learning paths are essential for providing personalized education, allowing students to progress at their own pace and according to their needs. This approach enhances student engagement, motivation, and success especially for younger learners who require more structure and monitoring. It also reinforces the idea that students do not need to be the same; each can have their own preferences, working pace, needs, and challenges.
Our Dakora+ app makes creating and managing these learning paths smooth and efficient, without requiring excessive time and effort from teachers. Multiple projects? Multiple levels? With Dakora+, you can easily distribute materials and tasks to individual students and student groups.
With Dakora+ your students will:
- Understand and develop competencies through a clear, structured learning process.
- Achieve learning objectives at their own pace and take control of their schedule.
- Receive meaningful feedback and reflect on their learning process.
- Demonstrate proficiency and progress in various ways.
ePortfolios – empower success through self-awareness
Students often lose motivation when their assignments end up forgotten in a drawer. Instead, these tasks could form part of their ePortfolios, showcasing their skills and competencies. Starting early means they will be well-prepared to present their achievements in future job interviews.
ePortfolios are ideal for older students who take more responsibility for their learning and have developed their own preferences and interests. Working with portfolios supports this by allowing students to demonstrate their skills and knowledge in diverse ways, preparing them for the labor market and enhancing their employability skills.
Our app, Diggr+, is easy to use and facilitates portfolio-based pedagogy for maximum personalization and competence development. Students demonstrate proficiency in various ways, reflect on their learning process and collect artefacts of learning into their own individual digital portfolios.
With Diggr+ your students will:
- Gain a clear understanding of competencies through a structured learning process.
- Progress at their own pace and manage their schedules independently.
- Collect learning artefacts and reflect on their skills and knowledge.
- Receive constructive feedback and showcase their progress and proficiency in diverse ways.
- Take ownership of their learning journey and feel empowered to achieve their goals.
COMET your competency management hub
Competency based learning and teaching is a new concept with different aspects: defining competences within a subject or topic, developing competence grids and basing these grids on self assessments are some key features that our competency managment hub tries to cover. Register and become part of our community!
COMET assessment
Does a student truly understand their strengths and weaknesses after receiving a grade? What if they could also self-evaluate their competencies, where skills, knowledge, and attitudes are clearly described, or simply align with learning objectives? Alongside grades, both students and teachers could reflect on the level of proficiency for a specific objective.
An assessment tool is essential for competency development in education. It evaluates skills, identifies strengths and areas for improvement, and guides personalized learning paths with measurable outcomes. It supports personalized learning, tracks progress, and provides clear feedback.
Our COMET assessment tool enhances this process by enabling individual and group questionnaires, customizing proficiency levels and grades, attaching learning materials, and generating detailed reports from responses
COMET concept
In education, it is not only students who develop their skills. Teachers and staff must constantly enhance their abilities to remain at the forefront and guide students effectively. Competence development empowers headmasters to streamline skill enhancement for their team, fostering targeted growth and improved performance. Additionally, our expanding database offers ready-to-use materials to inspire and support ongoing professional development.
COMET competence grids
Course curricula, learning objectives for students, and international frameworks such as DigComp or EntreComp, along with soft skills, can be incorporated to offer your students a comprehensive education. You can connect all of these into organized and transparent grids. By diversifying levels, you can cater to the various needs of your students.
Exabis Plugins
Designed specifically for institutions utilizing Moodle, our series of plugins make competency development easier and more efficient than ever before. From building your curriculum to linking tasks, assignments, and Moodle activities directly to competencies, to assessing student progress and generating comprehensive reports - we've got all the tools you need to create a competency-based education environment that truly excels. Say goodbye to complexity and hello to streamlined competence development with Exabis Moodle Plugins!
EXABIS ePortfolio
- collect learning artefacts
- reflect on learning process
- create multiple ePortfolios
EXABIS Competencies
- link course materials and external materials to competencies
- self-evaluate your competencies; evaluate students' competencies
- generate reports and competence profiles
EXABIS Student-Review
- collaborative assessment of students
- verbalised scales
- individualized student reports
EXABIS Games
- game-based learning in Moodle
- transforms boring quizzes into games
- have students create their own games
EXABIS Library
- gather and share articles and books inside your Moodle
- invite reviewers and review work of others
- create categories and tags course-specific or independent
Need a specific course?
Our team of instructional designers can create all sorts of courses:
- moderated course on your LMS platform
- tutor-led webinars or training seminars
- interactive e-learning courses for class use and self-study
- blended learning and flipped solutions tailor-made to your needs
